construction of a drone

Hello friends. I want to get started in this wonderful world of developing UAVs and would like to advise me where I start , I want to start from scratch and implement complex control algorithms for the design of it . Thank you!!

While it is essentially still true, as to the specific recommendations for particular products, a lot has changed.

Before anything else, you still need to learn to fly a quadcopter and there are a ton of inexpensive Chinese ones that are very well suited to the purpose, you should get a light small one as they survive crashing very well and you do a lot of that when you start.

Fabio, I understand your desire to program your own stuff, but for the most part understand that programming these things is a very serious undertaking and you will need to learn a lot before you can even get started.

Of course you can also take the companion computer route linked by Kyle above and then you have more freedom as to programming.

The most powerful flight controller that is currently available to the general public is the one that we support, the Pixhawk and several variants made by others that still use it's firmware.

You will need to look at and probably interact with the ArduPilot developers group and study their programming methods to have any hope of doing anything worthwhile with it.

As for building yourself, when you are ready, the variety of 250 to 280 sized FPV racing frames would be a good way to start and you can even start with a simpler controller like the NAZE which is also open source and then upgrade to a Pixhawk if you choose to do so.

Don't start with anything smaller than a 250 at this time, it is too difficult to cram a Pixhawk into it.

These are just a few thoughts that might help, if I were to rewrite that page it would be pretty much the same, just the specific examples would have changed.

Start simple. Make something basic that works, and then build on it. To many projects never get anywhere because they try to include everything from the beginning.

Also don't fall in the NIH (Not Invented Here) trap. Highly experienced people have spent years making stuff work. You will not be able to recreate this effort 'over the weekend', so take advantage of what is out there instead.

I have attitude and desire to develop this project, and get someone to help me finance the rest. And if the idea is to work on the complete design . But I want to start with a very basic level , then enter an intermediate level and finally an expert level . In addition to learning to fly and everything it takes to develop a good product.